Capital

Baghdad

Continent

Asia

Flag adopted

2008(r1)

Designer

Not individually credited

Iraq

Colors and meaning

• Red(r1) #CE1126

• White(r1) #FFFFFF

• Black(r1) #000000

• Green(r1) #007A3D

  The colour of the Takbir inscription(r1)

Symbolism and history(r1)

A red-white-black tricolor bears the Takbir, "Allahu Akbar", written in green Kufic script across the white band. Saddam Hussein added the Takbir in his own handwriting in 1991; in 2004 it was rendered in traditional stylized Kufic script instead, and a 2008 law removed the three green stars that had accompanied it, leaving only the Takbir with its two words brought closer together and rendered bold.

Most similar flags

The 6 closest of the 194 other national flags, ranked by a similarity index computed from the flag images themselves. The number is that index, 0–100 — not a claim that the two flags are “X% identical”.

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  Egypt98

  the same horizontal band layout; near-identical colour proportions.

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  Yemen97

  the same horizontal band layout; near-identical colour proportions.

• 
  Sudan83

  the same horizontal band layout; the same colours in similar amounts.

• 
  State of Palestine78

  the same horizontal band layout; the same colours in similar amounts.

• 
  Hungary77

  the same horizontal band layout; the same colours in similar amounts.

• 
  Jordan77

  the same horizontal band layout; the same colours in similar amounts.

Computed at build time: each flag is rasterised to 64x48, and the score is 0.55 × colour overlap + 0.45 × structure. A different weighting would rank these differently. How the index works.

Further reading: Flag of Iraq on Wikipedia